Your Must-Have Gardening Tool
For all those lavender lovers out there who also love gardening organically; what’s your favourite gardening tool?
For some of us it will be something unique to our own gardening needs. For others it may be a sentimental tool handed down through the generations.
For seasoned gardeners, when growing lavenders your favourite garden tool will probably be well used and lovingly cared for.
For those of you who are novice gardeners but would love to get into gardening; I’ve decided to make a list of what I would call essential gardening tools which should help you get started.
In next to no time you will probably have a favourite gardening tool just like the seasoned gardeners.
This will in no way be an exhaustive list and as you begin to cultivate your organic lavenders will find what best suits your individual needs.
It will also depend on the size of your garden; whether a big block, patio or balcony. Different garden tools are needed for different types of gardens. However, here are some tools that you will probably find invaluable as you enjoy growing your own organic lavenders.
SHOVEL: essential for preparing soil; double digging new organic garden beds
SPADE: smaller than a shovel used for digging and planting your lavenders.
SHEARS: for pruning your plants to encourage growth
WATERING CAN: there are many types of watering cans; choose one with a long spout and one that has a rosette that can be adjusted to a gentle spray for young plants and seedlings. You don’t want to wash away the soil that is nourishing your plants just as you are getting started!
GARDEN HOSE: can be used on established plants; but still requires an adjustable nozzle to control water pressure. Handy in larger garden areas. Will not be required for container gardening.
TROWEL: used for accessing small areas for weeding your organic garden
RAKE: different types for different jobs; your garden centre should help you with this
GARDEN FORK: used to break up soil
GARDENING GLOVES: some gardeners like to feel the soil as they garden; but for those who don’t want dirt under their nails or on their hands, a sturdy pair of either good leather or alternatively water-proof gardening gloves should be on the list of essential gardening equipment. They will not only protect your nails; but also your hands from thorns, scratches and cuts.
WHEELBARROW: this is not essential when you first start out, but if you have a big backyard and plenty of digging and moving to do; it will become so. Could be put on your “wish” list of presents you would like to get for your birthday, if your own budget can’t afford one.
COMPOST BIN: now that you have decided you are enjoying growing your own lavenders; you may decide to venture further and dig a vegie patch. A compost bin will now come in handy as compost is not expensive when you have your own compost bin.
Make your own compost and not only the environment, but also your organic garden will benefit. You get rid of your kitchen waste, it promotes biodiversity and cuts methane emission as you send less of your kitchen waste to landfill.
It gives you fertiliser at very little cost to name a few of the advantages of this piece of garden equipment. Buy the compost bin that suits you.
Lavenders as Companion Plants
Lavenders make great companion plants in an organic vegie patch so you are already getting into the organic lifestyle with your organic gardening venture.
Enjoy Growing Your Lavenders
This is not an exhaustive list and your own will depend on your individual situation. I’m sure when growing lavenders your favourite gardening tool will be put to good use. Whatever type of organic gardening you do; enjoy it knowing you are doing your bit for the environment. Happy gardening.
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Greeting Patricia,
Those are helpful tips I am an avid gardener and use a few things mentioned. I have to admit I do love getting my hands dirty so if the ground is soft I do use my hands.
Lavender is a welcome addition to the garden or even around the house. Lavender is a natural insect repellent. I enjoy sitting outside so I plant those along with other insect repellent herbs near the areas where my daughter and I sit. Citronella and rosemary are two other herbs that certain insects do not like.
I always hesitate when thinking about putting our compostable kitchen stuff out into the garden. I’ve heard that some things are not good for compost, but I can never remember what they are (egg shells, for one?) Maybe you could do a short post on this topic someday.
Great stuff, Patricia, as always.
Thanks Charles
I appreciate your visit and taking time to comment on my site. Thanks for the suggestion for another post. I’ll get onto it.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Opal
Love your health site. I love gardening without gloves on too. Your property sounds lovely. I’m moving soon and look forward to planning a new garden; even though it’s a small space.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Patricia:
Hope you are doing as great as your blog. I liked your blog post ‘your favorite Gardening tools” This is a great start for those who are starting gardening first time.
This may even help the indoor plant growers they can buy similar mini tools for indoor gardening.
Keep up the good work, you are making people aware of Lavender, a natural fragrance that has so many advantages. Nurseries around me bring Lavender plants every spring from Martha’s Garden.
Talk Again
Fran aslam
Thanks for your input Fran. Glad you are enjoying my lavender blog. I love researching the lovely lavender and its many uses. Just been writing a new post that I will probably put out next week. Also have a guest poster coming on board with a post that I think my readers will enjoy too. Hope you keep visiting and enjoying my blog.
Patricia Perth Australia
Well, this post shows you are master in gardening and Growing Lavenders. Thanks for writing an useful post for the Lavender lovers.
Thanks Sathish. Love it when people visit and take the time to comment. Lets me know if people are finding my posts helpful or not.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Patricia!
Great post. In response to Charles and the comment on the compost:
Keep in mind that lavender is a native to the rocky, limey soils -aka alkaline- of Mediterranean and is not used to lovely loamy soils of our pristine home gardens. Compost will feed the lavender too well, producing lots of green leaves and a weaker plant. Best to err on the side of a little abuse.
The good part about eggshells is that when they break down they add the calcium to the soil needed by the lavender.
I’m sending the guest post on lavender wands today!
Excellent job Patricia!
With lavender grins,
Susan
Lovely to have you visiting and taking the time to comment as I know it is very busy on your lavender farm at the moment. That’s why I added about the organic vegies. More for them really. Will be doing a post as he requested and will add your information (you’ll get a mention) into the article so thanks.Looking forward to you guest posting too
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Patricia
I’m starting my lavender patch this weekend so the tips and advice here are very clear, concise and very timely. I like the idea of using a compost bin – am finding these posts very helpful
Thanks for sharing Patricia.
Michael
Great. You will have to take before and after photos and then I can have you guest blog on my site. Keep notes of what you learn along the way. I move into a new place in a few weeks and although it is a small plot I will be sourcing some lavenders for my garden. We can compare notes
BTW glad you finding the posts helpful. I’m learning heaps as I research more on the lovely lavender too.
Too good Patricia. I look forward to it.
I love the smell of lavender, thanks for your tips and resources, I may get out and do this, I need to find some seeds from somewhere
Let me know when your garden patch is blooming and I will get ready for you to post on my blog. Hope you have fine weather for your venture over the weekend. It’s beautiful sunny weather in Perth at the moment but I know it rains a lot in Melbourne lol
Happy gardening
Patricia Perth Australia
I don’t grow Lavender. I don’t have a green thumb. You should sign up as an Amazon affiliate.
Thanks Rose. I have signed up; just not figured how to get the shop front up yet. Lavender in the right conditions is easy to grow…..green thumb or not
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Dan
Thanks for visiting. It is difficult to grow lavender by seed. Better to use cuttings. If you live in a humid climate some of the Mediterranean species are not suitable. If you decide you want to give it a try, just use my contact page and let me know your climate zone so I can suggest suitable lavenders for your area.
Patricia Perth Australia
Good morning Patricia:
So now fall is here and then winter, And if you are in the colder part of the world, it is time to save our beautiful and fragrant and full of benefits plant. I hope you are thinking of writing on that. You will get many comments on that.
Well I will come another time
You have a great day.
Fran Aslam
Thanks Fran. I could do a post for the northern hemisphere. If there is anything you want me to especially blog on, drop me a line on my contact page and I will do my best.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hello Patricia, Is it me but did I sense something else with Owen’s comment, not trying to instigate anything just saying. I love those garden tools pictured. I would get it just because of the pretty color. Your anchor text looking real good. I think you are getting the hang of it.
Hi Karen
Good to see you gal. Been enjoying your poetry too. My niece does the graphics. I just say what I want and her talent and her Mac seem to do it effortlessly
After your patient tuition yes I’m getting the simple techie tasks….at last although heaps more to learn lol
Patricia Perth Australia
Nice! I think I can learn a lot about gardening from you. I love it very much. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Tanmay
thanks for visiting and I appreciate you taking the time to comment. Visit as often as you like. Hopefully there will be more for you to learn as I publish more posts on the lovely lavender.
Patricia Perth Australia
Lol am intrested in growing this! I would love to give it a try oneday! Thanks for sharing take care.
Greatg Samuel. Anytime you want any help with choosing lavenders, tips for growing just ask. I would love to see more people appreciate the lovely lavenders many uses. They are all in flower here in Perth and the perfume is amazing.
Patricia Perth Australia
the first time am visiting your blog, looks cool and kind of impressed with the content stuff and loved the color background and things.. keep rocking.
Welcome to my blog. Thanks for visiting and taking a look around. Hope you visit again. Any questions about the lovely lavender don’t hesitate to ask. Have a great day
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Patricia
Must have gardening tool?
I garden on heavy soil – clay, so I must have a good quality spade.
AS for lavender, I have a few plants in my front garden, which I was going to add to and produce a lavender border.
Unfortunately… my lavender cuttings weren’t successful!
Any tips on taking lavender cuttings?
Hi I did work with this Lavender grower in Hampshire http://www.longbarn.co.uk/ might be worth seeing how they have set stuff up- Grant
Actually, my favorite took is a gardening stool I use as I go along the row thinning and weeding vegetables. I would not get far without it.
Compost is easy to do it just takes a little bit of time to make. You can follow my link for more help.
Hi Keith
When I lived and worked in UK I gardened on heavy clay soil and in a garden that hadn’t been touched for about 30 years so I can appreciate how handy a good spade is! I had to build a rockery to get my lavender plants to thrive. All the best with your lavenders too.
Patricia Perth Australia
Thanks for the lavender info grant. Will check them out.
Patricia Perth Australia
Hi Stephanie
Thanks for dropping by. Cool a gardening stool. sounds like a handy piece of equipment for you while you are enjoying gardening. Will share your link too.
Patricia Perth Australia
My Favorite must have gardening tool is the Garden Hose, I just love playing with water
But honestly I think your doing such a great job on your blog with all this useful information your sharing with us.
I cant go a day now without checking your blog, I love the way you write and present your articles, very professional.
Please keep on sharing
Thanks Sayed for your many kind words. I love blogging about the lovely lavender. Will be publishing another post tomorrow.
Patricia Perth Australia
If you need any help with the Amazon stuff – send me an email Patricia,
You definitely need to be monetising this niche niche.
You have great content, well targeted, and with all the commenting you are doing – A LOT of backlinks
I hope I can help
Alex, 4000km from Perth Australia
Thanks so much for visiting. Wow I know you are well respected amongst the blogosphere so wow again that you’re here. Thanks so much for your offer of help. I will send you an email as I am so technically challenged! I didn’t really get the backlink thing til recently. Kept hearing it was a good thing but I just enjoyed visiting other blogs, commenting and learning. Great that it is good for my site too
Hopefully catch up with you soon.
Patricia Perth Australia
I love lavender. My mother first gave me a small pot many years ago, and I now have a number of different varieties.
My favorite gardening tool would have to be my gardening gloves. My only problem is I go out to the garden, and see a weed, and go to pull it out, and before I know it i have been there for an hour and my hands and nails are full of dirt…ooops too late for the gloves
Hi Brenda
Thanks for visiting my blog and taking time to comment. I don’t use gloves either when I garden. Like you, I find they get in the way! But I do so love gardening…..very relaxing isn’t it? How lovely that you have different varieties of lavender. With 39 species to choose from, most people who love lavenders should find one to choose for their garden.
Patricia Perth Australia
Nice blog you have got here Patricia, and the content here is very good. In fact it’s best for me as I am also a lavender lover.
Thanks and keep it up.
Glad you liked my blog Sahil and found the information helpful. I post every week so hope you will visit again soon.
Patricia Perth Australia
I’m determined to start a compost pile. I grew up carrying all the food scraps to ours and making faces as I lifted the lid and saw all the critters busy at work. I grew up with a small garden and it would be a fun project to do with the kids. Wonderful list of tools. I have most if them but need to actually put them to use.
Hi Melinda
Great to see you over here. Hope you get to garden although with all those big critters around your property I think you are very brave. I’d be staying in my house and locking the doors lol
Let me know if you manage to grow some lovely lavenders. I’ll be looking for a guest post with before and after photos….yeah
Patricia Perth Australia
Patricia, I spent a few days last year helping a friend with his lavender greenhouses here in British Columbia. They are MASSIVE and it was an enjoyable (albeit hard day of work), we were trimming the lavender down – so the only tool I’ve ever used when working with lavender was … scissors … yep, cut ‘em in half pretty much! It was a beautiful smelling day though, and I think being in that greenhouse with all that lavender gave me the best sleeps I’ve ever had.
Hi Daniel
Thanks for taking the time to visit and comment on my blog. That must have been a great experience being amongst the lavenders. And I’m not surprised you slept well as lavender is known for its relaxing properties. I’ve even written a post about it
Patricia Perth Australia
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